Hi, YABCers!
Today we’re super excited to celebrate the cover reveal for
Kat’s Greek Summer (Mima Tipper), releasing May 13, 2025!
Before we get to the cover, here’s a note from the author:
Dear YABC readers, Thank you so much for checking out Kat’s Greek Summer. The novel is loosely based on the many summers I spent in Greece during the first 16 or so years of my life. Because I didn’t have any interest in writing a memoir, I created a fictionalized main character—a girl as opposite to me at the age of 14 as possible—and crafted a fun, gripping, romantic, sun and sand-filled contemporary YA story. As I wrote the book, though, a lot of feelings about my family and my heritage surfaced. I let Kat Baker, my fictional character, say and do and ask things that I never knew or had the courage to say and do and ask. A lot of my remembered feelings and experiences surfaced. These feelings and experiences informed Kat’s story more and more, and the result of that process is Kat’s Greek Summer. Though Kat’s story is fiction, many, many aspects of her story hold the emotional truth I discovered exploring my own heritage growing up half Greek/half American.
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Title: Kat’s Greek Summer
Author: Mima Tipper
Release date: May 13, 2025
Publisher: Spark Press, Simon &Schuster distributor
ISBN (if available): 978-1684633067
Cover designer/artist credit: Spark Press Design team led by Mary Ann Smith
For fans of Jenna Evans Welch and Barbara Dee, Mima Tipper’s “Kat’s Greek Summer” (SparkPress, May 13, 2025) is a timely and uplifting contemporary YA story of a fourteen-year-old girl risking it all for self-truth, family, and first love over one sun-drenched Greek summer.
Ready—set—look out, world! Kat Baker is about to explode… onto the high school scene, that is. All she has to do? Spend July and August training with New Canaan High’s cross-country team, become a running goddess and, come fall, claim her place as the team’s star freshman runner.
When her mom shocks her with the unwelcome news that the family will spend the summer exploring their roots in the rustic Greek village of Paralia, Kat’s sure her high school popularity plan is toast. Once in Paralia, punishing heat and cultural clashes force her to launch a risky and covert training strategy to keep her running-star dreams alive. And it is during these hidden sessions that Kat is swept into late-night encounters with Theofilus Zafirakis, a beautiful but off-limits Greek boy.
As Kat’s lies mount, her secret odyssey spirals out of control, finally putting one of her cousins in danger. In the end, it takes the unexpected meddling of a village full of crazy, wonderful (and not so wonderful) Greeks for her to open up to her Greek side, discovering at last that the key to belonging anywhere is belonging first to herself.
About the Author: Mima Tipper
Half-Greek, half-American, Mima Tipper and her writing reflect her heritage—a little bit old-country, a little bit rock and roll: one foot wandering through the dreamy realms of myths and faerie tales, the other running on the solid ground of fast-paced, contemporary story. She earned her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has published YA fiction in Hunger Mountain and Sucker Literary Magazine. Kat’s
Greek Summer will be her first published novel. Beyond devoting most of her time to writing, Mima volunteers at her local library and is committed to promoting literacy. Mima lives in Vermont with her family.
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*Giveaway Details*
Three (3) winners will receive a signed ARC copy of Kat’s Greek Summer (Mima Tipper), plus a swag bag of an Aegean blue gauze bag with stickers, a button pin, a bookmark, a temporary tattoo, and an evil eye bag charm. ~ US/CAN Only!
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